Jeff Pollet

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say The Oakland Police Department says it is working with the FBI’s Art Crime Team to investigate the burglary.

Over 1,000 artifacts stolen from Oakland Museum of California, police say oaklandside.org/2025/10/29/o...

I’m not sure why Brazil was a red line, but this is a good reminder that it would only take a handful of Republican senators to rein in this administration on MANY issues.

#booksky

#booksky

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

Once again LAPD ignore the law AND a federal court injunction preventing them from brutalizing media. I was knocked at the ground by police horse and threatened on a number of occasions with the rest if I didn’t leave the area. PC409.7 clearly details protections for journalists.

@stellagarp.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve been tagged on this a bunch but I just needed to make sure you saw it.

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope?

They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too.

Is this just me or are others seeing it?

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

It's "great" to see my employer releasing names and information about *alleged* behavior to the Trump admin, without even telling the people who've been accused what it is that they're accused of. Utterly reprehensible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

In good news, my brain MRI shows that my pituitary tumor has involuted. It disappeared. Hooray! For nearly 20 years I had a tumor and now...

it's not a tumah.

I can’t beleive it’s already is-he-dead-yet season. I still have my holy-shit-he’s-gonna-start-wwiii decorations up.

#funny #comic #uspol #trump

New mental health courts haven't helped as many people as Newsom promised. Here's why Far fewer people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom's CARE Court than he projected when he launched the mental health program to help homeless Californians.

The bias in this reporting on Newsom's sanist 'care courts' is pretty clear and is pretty actively advocating to abridge the civil rights of mentally ill people!

A Google trends result that compares the 2 search terms “Trump alive” and “trump dead” User search interest worldwide for the latter is much higher

glass half empty
glass full

if trump died i hope they at least have courtesy to try and make it seem like he didnt by puppeting around his dead body pulling strings to move his arms putting sunglasses on him the whole shebang

Trump died as he lived, with everyone who had ever heard of him wishing he were dead

Nothing Is Scarier Than an Unmarried Woman “Weapons” is about a classroom of missing children—and the young schoolteacher whom all the parents want to blame.

Justine, the protagonist of “Weapons,” doesn’t have a husband or children of her own—and so she seems to disturb some natural order, writes Beatrice Loayza:

I know these words Are angsty like a growing teen brain thought them My poetic adolescence I know Heavy handed Overwrought Cliche, even (that would be aiming high) Too many parenthesis Far too many Line Breaks For No Reason (just because I feel like it) Don't care. They're just for me Expressions thrown into the air For me to look at with wonder, with love Or Juggling phrases Because it's fun to juggle Or Emotional undercurrents examined from the corner of my eye Or Linguistic stress vomit Just for me Shared with three to five people (ish) Who might want to know me better Who might find echoes of themselves there.

#poetrycorner

Appeals Court Allows DOGE Access to Sensitive Data at Several Agencies

By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel this morning allowed DOGE teams at Treasury, Education and OPM to reclaim access to government databases containing personal information on millions of Americans. Opinion cites the Supreme Court’s reasoning in June about DOGE and social security data.

it’s true though. crime is basically my favorite

Five years ago I would have been on Twitter calling everyone who thinks same sex marriage is safe a dumbass. But now I'm all "with respect" because I'm over 50 now and I gotta chill. lmao

This is where I think I'm Ethan Hawke in Before Sunrise But I'm not even Ethan Hawke in Before Sunset, or Midnight I'm not even Elliot Gould in The Long Goodbye But I feel confident As a few moments tick by Where chemistry feels like something again Something in my body Not just something invented by idle minds And that confidence carries over A day Two Until it fades quickly Like her tired smile fades into apathy And I feel myself again The good, bad, ugly and pretty All of it undermining Whatever made up reality I was living in two days ago.

#PoetryCorner
#poetry

(over an image that’s an outline of the US) FIGHT THE TRUMP TAKEOVER (TRUMP is crossed out)

The courageous Texas Democrats have called for a national day of action on Saturday. We’re backing them up to protest Trump’s effort to rig electoral maps and steal the 2026 election.

Find an event near you or host a protest: www.fightthetrumptakeover.com?SQF_source=i...

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You're the first person I've ever seen mention this absolutely rad movie. Watch it for the Godzilla scene alone...

This fucking dipshit.

Substack's extremist ecosystem is flourishing Yup, they're still at it.

When I left Substack in 2024 I wrote: "For those who are staying because they think the Nazi problem is fake or overblown...just wait. Substack mgmt just put out the welcome mat for some pretty horrible people. Many will surely answer.”

Surprise! A bunch did.

New Racket w/ @marisakabas.bsky.social

Part of me knew back then where the words would take us Even as the carcinogenic dust hadn't yet settled (Into the lungs of the first responders) (Even that phrase has power it never had before) (I long for a time when I didn't know what "first responders" could mean) Even before we waged war because of Whatever reasons we needed to make war (And really, we don't need any reason at all) (War comes along with modern humans) (I don't want to believe that) (But I do believe that) Even before racism was turned up to eleven Phrases already began to appear in our psyche Spontaneous generation making a return in the mental world of all of us I wanted to tear them out by the root, before they could even see the sun. But they grew. And now it's difficult to explain how There didn't used to be a Department of Homeland Security Sometimes it's difficult to even remember myself that there wasn't "Homeland"? I remember the word as a question echoing inside my skull Isn't there anybody who remembers WWII? Didn't anybody read 1984? Anne Frank? All the warnings (Themselves given to us in words, of course) They didn't really take, did they? "Homeland" will never ring true to me It's always a warning of what's to come.

#poetrycorner